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S. W. Partridge and Co.	The printing and publishing firm of S. W. Partridge and Co. was founded in 1850. According to 'The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1939', in 1930 the firm was purchased by A. & C. Black. S. W. Partridge and Co. continued publishing until World War II, but appears to have been discontinued during the war. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black.	2010
S. W. Tilton and Company	Stephen Willis Tilton founded the publishing firm of S. W. Tilton and Company in the 1870s, after the closure in 1874 of J. E. Tilton and Company (q.v.). Publications of S. W. Tilton and Company have been traced for the 1870s and 1880s but not later. According to the website www.tilton.org, Stephen Willis Tilton was born in 1833 and died in 1911.	2021
Saalfield Publishing Company	The Saalfield Publishing Company was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1900 by Arthur J. Saalfield, who had taken over the publishing assets of the Werner Company. The firm developed a specialism in books in the names of motion picture stars, including Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Woody Woodpecker. The firm ceased operations and went out of existence in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 324.	2009
Sagamore Press	The publishing firm of Sagamore Press was acquired by Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. around 1957. See the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., which indicates that the firm merged with A. S. Barnes & Co. in 1958 and in 1978 the merged firm was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Inc., shortly after which it disappeared from the world of publishing.	2008
Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd	The religious publishing firm of Samuel Bagster & Sons was founded around 1794. The firm was sold (as part of the assets of George Webb Bookbinders) to Marshall, Morgan and Scott in 1973. Marshall, Morgan and Scott merged with Pickering & Inglis in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Saturday Review Press	Saturday Review Press was established in 1971 as the successor firm to McCall Books (q.v.). In 1973 Saturday Review Press was sold to E. P. Dutton and Company, which is now part of the Penguin Group. The use of the name Saturday Review Press ceased in 1977. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 328.	2008
Saunders, Otley & Co.	Saunders, Otley & Co. began publishing in the 1820s. The firm eventually became one of the component or subsidiary firms of Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd.	2008
Saxon Publishers	Saxon Publishers was established as a skills-based math instruction publisher. In 2004 Saxon Publishers was acquired by the Harcourt Achieve division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Achieve was purchased by Houghton Mifflin in 2007, and is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Scarecrow Press	"Scarecrow Press was purchased in 1995 by University Press of America and moved from its Metuchen, New Jersey, headquarters to Lanham, Maryland, where it is now a member of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group." Quoted from www.scarecrowpress.com. See also www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Sceptre Press	Sceptre Press was run as the private press of the poet Martin Booth from 1969 to 1981. The archives of the firm are in the University of New Hampshire Library and the University of Birmingham Library. According to the University of New Hampshire catalogue, the rights to the name Sceptre Press were purchased by Nora Aldridge in 1984. See also the WATCH entry for Martin Booth.	2008

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